This came to me this week via a tweet from my good friend Zack Orr who is a fantastic songwriter so when he says something is amazing I take note. I was more than blown away by this simple, short performance. It is an exceptional band playing great tunes and the lyrics are wonderful. This…
In 2008 due to a series of unfortunate events I lost my collection of over 500 vinyl albums some of which I thought would not possibly be replaceable. I had albums by bands that I knew were obscure and who’s records must have been long out of print and not available from the usual channels…
When I was young I was obsessive about listening to and discovering music. Sometime in my 30s the discovery part waned a little. I stopped listening to radio and was not actively seeking out music that I didn’t know at all – something I did a lot of when I was younger. My circle was…
After writing last week about the idea of creating a narrative to compose music to I decided to make little slide show of some images from the process of creating Channels. I have been reading Austin Kleon (Steal like and Artist) lately and he encourages keeping an archive of all resources that went into the…
David Byrne has a new album and according to his newsletter just released today he is making videos, in collaboration with artists from around the US, of new interpretations of songs from his new record American Utopia. The first video was just posted today and it completely knocked me out so much so I am…
Hello all. This post comes from the computer music side of Pancycle not the instrument crafting and tuning (at least not the physical kind) side. This is an update to this post which includes a preset for Aalto that I made. Apparently the earlier version wasn’t working when copied and pasted from here and Randy…
Occasionally I have time to work out some new musical ideas. This is an updated version of the most recent tune featuring just a little minimal Halo playing.